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From The Art Newspaper:
A survey of early photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century, 17 June-17 September) will focus on “the noisy century” of the medium, says the show’s curator, Mattie Boom. Around 300 pictures from the museum’s collection of more than 150,000 photographs will be included.
Continue reading “How botany helped give birth to photography”
a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
click here to see Gael Newton’s report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
For Americans who love art by the likes of Hans Holbein, Édouard Manet, Georges Braque and Paul Klee, dark times lie ahead.
Time out on a freezing cold morning in Canberra
A post on Doug and Victoria at the Photo Book Festival in Vienna.
the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography – click here
Untitled (all), Hans-Jörg Georgi, 2010–15, Courtesy of The Museum of Everything. Moorilla Gallery, Courtesy of Atelier Goldstein and The Museum of Everything (installation by Lutz Pillong), CC BY
There was an earlier comment by Arts Hub on issues around the National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition of Filipino art.
from the listing:
As listed: Dr Anne Mary Gray AM
This tour is meant to whet your appetite for this NGA exhibition – The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial.Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
I plan to offer some comments on this book very soon – meanwhile there’s a post online by Judith that is worth reading. Click here.
This NGA exhibition is an exhibition of contemporary art that should not be missed. It’s very good.Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
While Australia is a great country – it has been a long time since we have experienced a government that was actually committed to its culture.
Was it a mistake for arts schools to be amalgamated into universities?
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed a visual of its new Photography Centre – click here
Canberra Grammar School, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, until Saturday, June 18.
Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped AustraliaFor nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors?
Entries now invited
Continue reading “William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize”
Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA – till Sunday 5th November 2017
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition – Curtin Call
Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
There was something about the under reporting of the 2017 Venice Biennale that made me wonder.
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEYSearching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
click on image for the new portal on European photography collections. A fantastic research tool.
and to add to the heading – being sidelined by conservative governments and their agencies.
NGA photography news from Shaune Lakin, senior curator photography. (taken from his May 2017 newsletter – plus a little more)
an amazing study on the equity (or the lack of it) in the multicultural city of Los Angeles. Click here.
Click here for the newsletter update on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography – or
A notice for an exhibition by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
click here for the latest notice about Sydney’s photography festival – HEAD ON – 2 weeks to go.
Here’s a few of the exhibitions in Canberra this month.
Still have given notice of their final exhibition.
With Curtain Call, Stills Gallery is looking back over the history of the gallery and presents the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including:
Click here for more on the exhibition at Michael Reid of Christian Thompson’s photography exhibition.
Click on the image above to see a new research paper by Belinda Hungerford that has been uploaded to photoweb.
Dörte Conroy – What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim – Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading “The Photography Room May-June 2017”
click on the image or here for Penny Craswell’s blog and her review of the new Design Museum in London
This photoaccess exhibition is an exhibition I recommend – not because all the works are successful – but for combined messages.
There’s a great little but significant exhibition of screen prints at the Museum of Democracy in Canberra (Old Parliament House).
Part of Charles Blackman’s The Exchange, 1952, oil on plywood on composition board. 91.7 x 91.7 cm. National Gallery of Victoria © Charles Blackman
A detail from Vincent Van Gogh’s A wheatfield, with cypresses, early September 1889.National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1923 (NG3861) © The National Gallery, London
A new research book has been published by the National Gallery of Singapore. It contains essays on Southeast Asian art by 25 scholars. One of the contributing scholars is Gael Newton.
The book is available from the NGS shop and through their website – click here.